---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Discharged Student Loan Debt"
description: "Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Discharged Student Loan Debt"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 83"
citation: "Maryland HB 83 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Death", "Disabilities", "Exemptions", "Income Tax", "Loans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luedtke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-13"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9696c709-4af8-4c80-8e55-3b3ccdd560fa"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB83&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "454a6f6f3a3b616e3e1a12081771bf187e6369a70d182698c47477c4fe0be46b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 83 (2017) — Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Discharged Student Loan Debt

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0083f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **130–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Luedtke — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-13** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Hearing 2/01 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (130-1) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 685 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9696c709-4af8-4c80-8e55-3b3ccdd560fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).